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Opening files on a mapped drive

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Topic: Opening files on a mapped drive

Posted By: jacobb20
Subject: Opening files on a mapped drive
Date Posted: 13 May 2005 at 12:16pm

I'm developing an application in asp.net on my web server. It will be used to display the status of the fax log files on a Castelle fax server. How can I open these log files on the fax server from my web server? I'm running windows 2003 server. I can map the drive on the web server to the fax server. Can I create a Virtual Directory or an alias?? Any help is appreciated!

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Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 13 May 2005 at 1:53pm

I would not map a dirve, becuase you would have to map it for the Netowk Service account unless you use Windows Authentication, either way it would have to be mapped for those accounts. I would share the director of the logfiles on the server and access it that way like

file://\\catelle\logfiles - \\catelle\logfiles
Use this path in IO and you should be fine.

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